What’s the key to being happier in your career and life? What choices and tradeoffs must you be willing to be make to achieve this happiness? In this episode of Career Relaunch, Samantha Clarke, a former digital manager turned happiness consultant, shares her thoughts on how you can become happier with your work and explains why refuelling yourself is so critical before you can serve others. During today’s Mental Fuel® segment, I’ll talk about how I deal with the pressure I put on myself.

Key Career Insights

1. You have to be willing to let go of some things in order to make room for happiness.
2. Chasing an “overextended” version of yourself will only lead to burnout and an inability to give all you can to the work you care about most.
3. Happiness is about making sure you carve out enough time for those things that refuel you.

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Samantha mentioned a few strategic questions to ask yourself to keep yourself happy:

1. What do you need to put down or make peace with?
2. Allow yourself to be open to receiving?
3. What you can do to make space for self-care?
4. What support system do you need to keep going?
5. How can you keep challenging yourself, to destroy & rebuild

• Samantha has hosted classes at The School of Life, a global organisation dedicated to developing emotional intelligence. We apply psychology, philosophy, and culture to
  everyday life.
• Read more about Samantha’s Guardian Masterclass on how to build a portfolio career

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